If you don't compromise your gift, if you write each day as well as you can, and then submit your work and not worry about it and go on to the next piece, you suddenly find oddly enough that you're no more interested in the applause than the silence. You don't hear either one of them. You can never listen to the naysayers. If you do you won't survive.

We all end up in the same place. Some sonner than others.

God bless the Reference Librarians

I used to save all my rejection slips because I told myself, one day I'm going to autograph these and auction them. And then I lost the box.

You have two choices in life. You either die or do something with your time. You're going to be doing something - why not write?

Never read bad stuff if you're an artist; it will impair your own game. I don't know if you ever played competitive tennis, but you learn not to watch bad tennis; it messes up your game. Art's the same way.

Don't let anyone tell you that age purchases your freedom from fear of death.